Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: SINSULL
Date: 26 Nov 12 - 10:17 AM

You lie, Becca. Shame on you.

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Becca72
Date: 26 Nov 12 - 10:14 AM

Oh, thank you Santa! I'll do my very best to be good.

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Nov 12 - 09:23 PM

Well...I'd settle for a large, dark green, emerald. Failing that, perhaps a simple hat.

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: GUEST,The SS of Becca72
Date: 25 Nov 12 - 05:50 PM

'ullo 'ullo 'ullo. So it's black cats with emerald eyes? Or purple or blue-green? Off to look.
Be good Becca. Be patient. I'm on the job.
Special Santa to Becca.

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: My guru always said
Date: 25 Nov 12 - 05:22 PM

OOohhhh!!! We were away for the weekend, and when we came back I found I gotta Santa! Whoopee!

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 25 Nov 12 - 02:38 AM

Interesting about those gems, Rap. When I took my daughter to the American Museum of Natural History we looked at all of those fancy stones - but we were most impressed with the huge pieces of Topaz - you'd need a station wagon to move the largest one, let alone wear it. But if it is that plentiful and that large, that's a good source of jewelry stones for me. No one should have to die to mine a stone I would wear as jewelry.

Just in case my Santa had ideas along those lines. . . :)

SRS

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: GUEST,Batty Santa
Date: 24 Nov 12 - 06:37 PM

Ah, me - what to do. The hint list seems to indicate that your life is somewhat boring...or perhaps ghoulish is closer. Tombstone rubbings, indeed. No, I think I shall just go on down to the cave and pick up ten pounds of bat guano. Fresh or dried?

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: GUEST,Greg Stephens - size large Rotund Elf
Date: 24 Nov 12 - 01:49 AM

The little elves are helpful, but it takes the big guy to get the job done.

I am on the job.

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: GUEST,Santa calling Sarah of the Flute
Date: 23 Nov 12 - 03:29 AM

Are you being good?

Gathering goodies for you, just in case.

Lump of coal ready, just in case.

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: GUEST,A Guru Santa
Date: 22 Nov 12 - 04:16 PM

ho-ity ho ho ho!

your pressie is sitting next to me & will start it's long journey tomorrow

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: GUEST,CBs SS
Date: 19 Nov 12 - 07:58 PM

Is there a bear about ?
My thinking cap is on for a piratey piece of local vegetation or worse.

Growly on the prowly Santa

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: SINSULL
Date: 19 Nov 12 - 01:29 PM

In 1900, wealthy financier J.P. Morgan donated the Star of India to the American Museum of Natural History on Central Park West in Manhattan. On October 29, 1964, the famous golf-ball-sized stone was stolen, along with several other gems of note, including the Midnight Star, the DeLong Star Ruby, and the Eagle Diamond.[3] The thieves unlocked a bathroom window during museum open hours, climbed in that night, and found that the sapphire was the only gem in the collection protected by an alarm — and the battery for that was dead.[4] They raked up the stones and fled the same way they came in. The stones were valued at more than $400,000. Within two days, the notorious cat burglar, smuggler, and one-time surfing champion, Jack Murphy (also known as "Murph the Surf"), was arrested along with two accomplices, later receiving a three-year sentence. Some months later, the uninsured Star of India was recovered in a locker in a Miami bus station.[5] While most of the other gems were also found, the Eagle Diamond was never seen again.

Wikipedia says Natural History Museum. So did he steal the Hope Diamond?

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Nov 12 - 10:18 AM

Hmm...Thomas Blood stole the stuff with the Star of India and got away with it. However, his epitath reads (or read):


    Here lies the man who boldly hath run through
    More villainies than England ever knew;
    And ne'er to any friend he had was true.
    Here let him then by all unpitied lie,
    And let's rejoice his time was come to die.

My Secret Santa might not want people to "rejoice his time was come to die."

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 19 Nov 12 - 08:50 AM

bounce!!

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Nov 12 - 11:00 AM

The Star of India is in the Tower of London. All you have to do is pry it loose from its setting and send it on. The Hope Diamond is in the Smithsonian Institution in DC -- it would be more difficult to get AND a federal crime. I'm just trying to make it easy on my Secret Santa.

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 17 Nov 12 - 08:35 PM

Gidday, Santa!

wow, a poetical santa

lucky me

sandra

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: GUEST,Jenn's Jenerous and Jovial Julesperson
Date: 17 Nov 12 - 07:19 PM

Well, if you pronounce the last word of my adopted name as if you were Scandinavian that might work, just about, although of course I know you're not actually in Scandinavia at all and your ancestry might be entirely other. It was the best I could come up with right now.

Anyway, Jennbrooks, your husband's hints two years or so back haven't left me much wiggle room but the elves assure me we've coped with worse than this, so we're getting the whole process geared up now and I can assure you something will be on its way to you before too long. Just make sure you keep up those high standards of moral rectitude and all that stuff and then we'll have no trouble at all.

Now to deck those halls once again, to get us all in a more festive mood ....

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: GUEST,The ART-ful Dodger
Date: 17 Nov 12 - 01:42 PM

I have been able to satisfy two and possibly three of your desires but I seriously suggest you call her "Judy".

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: GUEST,The ART-ful Dodger
Date: 17 Nov 12 - 11:53 AM

So I checked out the security at the Natural History Museum and I think it is safe to say that you will NOT be receiving the Star of India in your package. I hear the Hope Diamond may be an easier mark. Check back here for updates.
TAD

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: GUEST,Sandra in Sydney's Secret Santa
Date: 17 Nov 12 - 10:08 AM

As I noted and said elsewhere:

I am Sandra's Secret San
I will send her lots of bran
Other stuff the help her go
Enjoy your holidays, Sydney Sandra!

Prune juice, senna other stuff
Will make your holidays pretty rough
My station's far out in the bush
For revenge you'd have to push.

But perhaps I'll send a fruitcake lorn,
You can consume on Christmas morn
And think of us poor jackaroos
Sharing Christmas with our horse.

Subject: RE: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: GUEST,A Secret Santa
Date: 17 Nov 12 - 08:42 AM

Is this where I tell Nancy King that she'd better post some hints if she doesn't want her presents to be limited to coal and gruel?

Subject: Secret Santa - Santee teasers - 2012
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 17 Nov 12 - 12:45 AM

Okay, do your best to tease your victims Santees this year. Log off before you post, use a guest name so the mods don't accidentally delete your silly post, and don't forget to log back in when you post elsewhere. It's also a good idea to not sign your real name at the bottom of your teasing post. :)

Go for it!

SRS